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title: Then the high chief of Hilo accepted Kamehameha as his king and sent… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the high chief of Hilo accepted Kamehameha as his king and sent his sons to aid Kamehameha in conquering the island Maui. Who acts: high chief. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 10

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Then the high chief of Hilo accepted Kamehameha as his king and sent his sons to aid Kamehameha in conquering the island Maui.

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**Who acts:** high chief · **What happens:** accept, send, aid, conquer · **To what, where:** Kamehameha, sons, island

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (high chief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66516:21:10
# text = Then the high chief of Hilo accepted Kamehameha as his king and sent his sons to aid Kamehameha in conquering the island Maui.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Hilo	Hilo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Kamehameha	Kamehameha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	aid	aid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
18	Kamehameha	Kamehameha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	conquering	conquer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | past | the high chief of Hilo | Kamehameha |  |  | then | as chief's king | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent kamehameha=Theme as king=Attribute |
| 2 | **send** | past | the high chief of Hilo *not said here* | chief's sons |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme |
| 3 | **aid** | to-infinitive | the high chief of Hilo *not said here* |  | Kamehameha |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kamehameha=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **conquer** | gerund | the high chief of Hilo *not said here* | the island |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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